Class, Food Stamps, and Goosefat Cheesecake

by B. Traven

Over at the Guardian, Suzanne Moore offers up a bite-sized analysis of the nexus between food choice, class, celebrity chefs, and rising inequality in Britain.

By replacing cash grants with paternalistic food stamps, Moore warns, Britain will “re-enter an age of Victorian platitudes, incessant moral lectures and sheer bloody cruelty.” She argues that American-style food stamps are the wrong approach to ending the “entitlement culture” that the country’s millionaire cabinet members are constantly decrying:

In the U.S., one sees exactly the kind of culture food stamps produce. Some states ban them from being used to buy fizzy drinks because of the obesity crisis, but protein and decent vegetables are beyond a food stamp budget. You cannot lecture people about healthy diets when fresh produce is so expensive.

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